Cuban Regime Seeks Chinese Support for Law Enforcement and Security

Last Friday, a meeting took place in Beijing between the interior ministers of the Cuban and Chinese regimes, as Havana continues to seek support in "law enforcement and security." China's Minister of Public Security, Wang Xiaohong, conveyed to Cuba's Minister of the Interior, Lázaro Alberto Álvarez Casas, China's readiness to collaborate with Cuba to implement the significant consensus reached by the leaders of both parties and nations, according to a report by the official Xinhua News Agency.

Wang further expressed China's willingness to "strengthen the ministerial meeting mechanism, enhance personnel exchanges, and improve law enforcement capacity building." He also showed a readiness to "deepen practical cooperation in law enforcement and security, safeguard the security interests of both countries, and make greater contributions to building a closer community with a shared future between China and Cuba."

In response, Álvarez stated Cuba's intent to further improve coordination and cooperation with China to jointly address security risks and challenges, according to the report.

The Cuban regime has traditionally relied on its allies for the purchase of equipment and training to suppress potential social upheavals. Amidst a structural crisis caused by disastrous management, Cuban leaders are looking to China for relief.

In June, the Cuban government expressed its intent to solidify its alliance with China to develop a "Community of Shared Future." This statement followed a meeting between Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla and Qiu Xiaoqi, China's Special Representative for Latin American Affairs, who was visiting Cuba. The presence of the Chinese executive representative was "part of the agreements reached between the presidents of both countries for the development of a Cuba-China Shared Future Community," stated the Foreign Minister on the social network X, describing the exchange as "fruitful."

In May, Rodríguez participated in the Fifth Ministerial Forum of China with the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Just days earlier, Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel traveled to Russia, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. He affirmed that the relations between Cuba and China are entering a "stronger stage" and called for "greater deepening."

Xi Jinping, for his part, offered the usual support: more cooperation, a stronger "ironclad friendship," and a message of solidarity among socialist countries. He also reiterated his proposal to build a closer community between the two governments, serving as a model for collaboration in the Global South.